Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hi there! You may have guessed it, but my name is Mark. So glad you could stop by and look my profile over. :) Down to business: I like most of the normal things (dinner, movies, bars, clubs) and even a lot of the abnormal things (raves, dive-bars, strange parties). I love meeting new friends and hanging out with old ones. I want to have as much fun as humanly possible and then some! Lesse, otherwise I have an Associates Degree in Architectural Drafting (i.e. I can draw building plans, :-)), but I ended up doing anything but but that. I was a Personal Care Giver, i.e. orderly (hospital grunt), a security guard, a painter and a maker of tiny aquariums, too. But now I'm an Instructional Aid (a walking chaulkboard, sounds like) and I'm ennjoying it greatly. I like working with kids and apparently the feeling is mutual. A few things about me: I was born in Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation (Yacht-tee-hey!), but I've never been to see the Grand Canyon (strange, yes). I hope to change that soon; want to come along? I'd love more company. My little brother is handicapped and in a wheelchair. He's really the reason I'm so damned nice. Also, I do great massages! Last but not least, I am now married to a great girl named Courtney!!!

My Interests

Making new friends, drinking games, giving massages, dancing, clubs, bars, parties, Sci-Fi, finding new and diverse viewpoints on the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything (42), etc., etc.

I'd like to meet:

Cool people who keep me on my toes and who know about Life, the Universe and Everything (42).

Music:

Audio Slave, Evan Essence, White Stripes, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Metalica, System of a Down, Tool, Rob Zombie, Alice in Chains, Green Day, Shakira, No Doubt, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, The Donnas, Nickelback, Madonna, Led Zepplin, Korn, P.O.D., MotoGrater, Hoobastank, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flogging Molly, etc, etc.

Movies:

Fight Club, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Run Lola Run, Animal Farm, The Lost Boys, The Crow, Stars Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi, Terminator (all 3 are bad-ass), Ghost Ship, Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl, House of 1000 Corpses, Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King), 100 Girls, Formula 51, Red Meat, Gleaming the Cube, Pump up the volume, Alien, Aliens, Aliens III, Alien Revolution, Alien vs. Predator, Predator, Predator II, Labrynth, My Fair Lady, The Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn, Old School, Starship Troopers, Ginger Snaps, The Red October, The Patriot, Gladiator, Elia Enchanted, Princess Diaries, etc., etc. In a word, eclectic.

Television:

Farscape, Insomniac, Simpsons, Stand-up comedy (George Carlin, Robin Williams, or Eddie Izzard by preference), CSI and its many spinoffs, no game shows please

Books:

Books by Issac A., Douglas Adams, Anne McCaffery, Terry Brooks, Lois Bujold, David Drake, David Edding, R.K. Rowling, etc., etc.

Heroes:

I am hero-less at the moment.

My Blog

Social Experiment Failure

Hey there, everyone in Bloqland (or at least, the very few people who read this silly little bloq) Below is one of the stupidest things I've ever done. Please, do not judge my overall intelligence or ...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:58:00 PST

Leap Year!!

Hiya, everyone! How is the leap year treating you? It seems to be making everyone around me sick as dogs! Including me. I've spent the entire week out of work because of fever, coughing, snuffy nose a...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:12:00 PST

This is the survey that (almost) never ends!!!!

1. What is your name?: Mark 2. Spell your name backwards: Kram, I actually use this as my caveman name. 3. Date of birth: 03/27/1980 4. Male or female?: All MALE 6. Nicknames: Shaun-Paul, pinky, pink...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:30:00 PST

Dog Gone Christmas Eve

How was your Chrsitmas Eve? I hope it was fun, 'cause mine was kinda depressing. I mentioned that I picked up a few extra shifts over the holiday break, right? Well those extra shifts were working wit...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:20:00 PST

Work, work and more work...

Blah... I may or may not have mentioned it, but my work schedule is pretty intense. This is bloq is partly proud that I'm working this hard and partly discontent that I have to work this hard. So if y...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:22:00 PST

Stardate: 2007.11.12

Hi ya! I was reminded that I haven't blogged in a long time by a friend recently, so here it is. Patrick is doing really well! He's getting bigger (longer and heavier) and more interesting (now he smi...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:26:00 PST

Patrick Ryan Amick is here!!!

Hi all, My wife, Courtney just had a little baby boy last night!!. We named him Patrick Ryan Amick, for her mother, Patricia, who just died last June and whose birthday was 9/11. He w...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:03:00 PST

Abbreviated Moving Brief

My mother is moving up to Phoenix! I'm here in Yuma as I post this to help her move the big stuff like furniture. I had a longer, more detailed bloq, but myspace ate it!! Dammit! "Even in the future n...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:48:00 PST

I want to live my life backwards

I want to live my next life backwards:You start out dead and get that out of the way.Then you wake up in an old age home feeling better every day.Then you get kicked out for being too healthy.Enjoy yo...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:07:00 PST

Virgin wife...

A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced ten husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband, "Please be gentle, I'm still a virgin." "What?" said the puzzled groom. "How can th...
Posted by Mark a.k.a. Proud Papa on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:10:00 PST